Focus: Military

While the first launch of nine to 10 Space Development Agency (SDA) Tranche 0 satellites has slipped from September until December, SDA said that it still plans to have a...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded Ball Aerospace a contract to build 10 satellites and accompanying ground systems to serve as the experimental testbed (NExT) of the National Defense Space...

Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites — 20 clusters of three satellites — on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company...

Viasat is selling its Link 16 Tactical Data Links (TDL) business to L3Harris Technologies in a nearly $2 billion divestiture that the companies say sharpens Viasat’s core focus and deepens...

Kayhan Space, along with Astroscale U.S. and UT-Austin have been awarded a U.S. Space Force contract to develop a solution that will enable in-space service, assembly, and manufacturing. The contract...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a national security satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office over the weekend, in the final Delta IV Heavy mission from the West Coast. The NROL-91...

PARIS — Defense and intelligence customers for satellite imagery are demanding real-time and more precise imagery and monitoring, multi-sensor datasets, and 3D mapping technologies, Earth observation (EO) operators said Thursday...

BAE Systems announced plans to launch its own multi-sensor satellite cluster called Azalea for U.K. military intelligence.  Azalea is planned as a cluster of three multi-sensor satellites from BAE Systems...

The U.K. Ministry of Defence published its first doctrine on national space power this month.  The new UK Space Power doctrine brings together government policy and strategy “to provide a...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded rocket propulsion company Ursa Major funding for development of its Hadley engine. The contract is under the U.S. Air Force Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI)...